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There are unconfirmed reports that at least 30-40 people have expired while watching Arts Council England’s online videos of their recent “Great Art” series of seminars held at the Sage Gateshead in, erm… Gateshead in the North East of England. Emergency services declined to comment on just how many instances of fatal “catatonic shock” have […]
It would appear that the awards people have been at it again. This curmudgeonly group of tweed wearing, tea drinking, scone scoffing individuals, smelling every so slightly of urine, have once again put their loafer covered feet firmly into their denture laden mouths. This time it’s the Olivier Awards and the septic group of individuals […]
On reflection this has not been a good couple of weeks for dance on the internet. The Hofesh thing didn’t work, Dance Uploaded TV is no good and now we have Sadler’s Wells Theatre (SWT) in London losing the plot completely with their launch of a global dance competition. What’s a “global dance competition” we […]
What you are looking at above, and we know you’re wondering, is a dancer from Hofesh Shechter [Dance Company]. We’re not sure which one it is, it might be the man himself, but it’s hard, very hard, to tell. The image was captured during the live “web cast” from the Roundhouse Theatre in London this […]
With their latest attempt to provide an online experience for dance built, so very obviously, by committee we have Chisenhale Dance Space, East London Dance, Greenwich Dance Agency and Laban getting egg all over their collective face with danceuploaded.tv. The usual suspects are all in evidence. You can upload video, you can embed video, you […]
With Christopher Frayling’s whining voice ringing in our ears from the days old story of ACE not getting enough credit for being almost completely useless let’s take a look at a scenario from the recent past, shall we! Let’s take two dance companies, we’ll call them Company A and Company B, just for the sake […]
The outgoing Chairman of Arts Council England and all around idiot savant Christopher Frayling (who has a Knighthood that we regard as irrelevant so it will not be used here we say) has used his final speech to prove how completely out of touch he really is. The Stage is quoting him, and we’re not […]
It’s silly season again in the arts with a slew of awards shows handing out gongs to the same people they always hand them out to. We’ve written about this before, and we’re getting tired of it!! The latest calamity is the South Bank Show Awards which, in a fit of peek, has given Wayne […]
Is Hofesh Shechter in danger of becoming the contemporary dance equivalent of Michael Flatley? If you don’t know who Mr Flatley is then all we shall say is ‘Lord of the Dance’ and “one trick pony” and leave it at that! How could we say such thing about the new darling of the contemporary dance […]
Those of you who don’t live in the UK and don’t indulge in soporific BBC documentaries on the arts may have little or no clue at all about who Alan Yentob is. So read on dear reader and let us enlighten you! Mr Yentob has spent his entire life working for the BBC in one […]